> On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 17:46, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> > What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth?
> > It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see
> > occasional updates when I update ports tree.
> It's still my favourite ports-builder.. I'll keep using it until it
> stops working.
> Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz>
Synth is much faster than portmaster or portupgrade, but one serious downside
is failure to install some packages that are built.
I thought I didn't have devel/gperf, then later it occurred to me that synth
might have hidden it in the repository without installing it.
Earlier, I thought I didn't have ninja installed but later found it hidden in
synth's repository.
Is there any way to make synth install build dependencies? Gentoo Portage has
"--with-bdeps=y".
I don't know how poudriere behaves in this regard.
I believe STefan Esser has a new, revamped portmaster in the works, but have no
idea of progress so far.
Tom
